Workshop your prose where you already write it.

Select an excerpt.

Point Prose Minion at a passage in any Markdown manuscript — a paragraph, a scene, up to 2,000 words.

Attach a context brief.

Built automatically from your story bible — character sheets, voice guides, prior chapters — so the analysis knows your world.

Run a craft tool.

Dialogue, gesture, cliché, continuity — fourteen focused passes return plain, copyable notes in monospace.

The writing room.

Your excerpt, an optional context brief, and a wall of craft tools. Pick an analysis and it runs on the passage with your story bible attached — then hands back notes you can act on.

• Three primary tools up front — Dialogue & Beats, Prose, Gestures — plus craft & voice as chips.
• A live word count and source path keep the excerpt grounded in the real file.
• Results keep their monospace + emoji character — copy or save any pass to your workspace.

A second reader who already knows your characters.

Find your tics across the whole book.

Word and category search scoped to a file, a folder of chapters, or your entire manuscript set. See every occurrence, the gaps between them, and where a word clusters too tightly.

• Scope it to active file, manuscripts, chapters, or a path pattern.
• Tune context words, cluster window, and minimum cluster to catch repetition that matters.
• Results come back as a per-file table with hit counts and average gaps.

The numbers behind the prose.

Prose statistics, style flags, and word-frequency — measured against a publishing standard and trim size you choose. Vocabulary diversity, lexical density, readability, word-length distribution.

• Pick a publishing standard (YA, adult) and trim size; metrics calibrate to it.
• Style flags surface weak verbs, adverbs, filler, and passive voice.
• Visual distributions — word length, frequency — render right in the panel.

Definitions with a sense of the scene.

AI lookups that read your context — definition, IPA pronunciation, and a sense explorer with synonyms tuned to how the word sits in your sentence. Run a full lookup or a fast one.

A guide, not a dropdown.

The tools picker opens as a guide — bigger cards that say what each pass does, grouped Primary, Craft & Voice, and Technical. Continuity even checks your excerpt against prior chapters.

Always know what a pass costs.

Your live OpenRouter balance sits in the header, with the last request's cost right beneath it — so a single lookup's spend is never a surprise. You pay OpenRouter directly; the extension is free.

Context briefs from your story bible

Character sheets, voice guides, and prior chapters assembled into the prompt automatically.

Fourteen craft tools

Dialogue, gesture, cliché, continuity, choreography — primary, craft, and technical passes.

Monospace results, kept

Every pass returns plain, copyable notes — save any of them straight to your workspace.

Manuscript-wide scope

Run search and metrics over one file, a chapter folder, or every manuscript at once.

Publishing standards

Calibrate metrics to a YA or adult standard and a real trim size before you measure.

A model per job

Assign a heavyweight to analysis, something fast to dictionary lookups — your call, per task.

Keys stay local

Stored in VS Code SecretStorage — never in settings, never on a server.

Theme-native UI

Warm by default, and it follows your active VS Code theme.

Nothing changes until you apply

Analyses and rewrites are suggestions — your draft is only touched when you say so.

Your key never leaves your machine.

The OpenRouter key lives in VS Code's encrypted SecretStorage — not in settings, not on a server.

No backend, no middleman.

Calls go straight from your editor to OpenRouter. Your manuscript and prompts are yours alone.

Clean architecture.

Layered, typed, tested — built to last. Forked from the pixel-minion framework.

One key, then you're editing.

Prose Minion works on Markdown manuscripts in your workspace. Results save right back to a folder you control.